Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs in Göttingen
Göttingen: Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs was 2,545 Degree days in 2025. ▼ Falling
Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs in Göttingen, 1950–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Degree days.
Analysis
In 2025, cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Göttingen stood at 2,545 Degree days.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 16.9% on the previous year and up 9.2% over ten years.
Over the whole period, cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Göttingen peaked at 3,289 Degree days in 1956 and was at its lowest, 2,106 Degree days, in 2014.
That places Göttingen 161st out of 1323 regions with data for 2025, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 76 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 2,859 Degree days | 2,511 Degree days | 3,289 Degree days | 10 |
| 1960s | 2,904 Degree days | 2,566 Degree days | 3,249 Degree days | 10 |
| 1970s | 2,809 Degree days | 2,539 Degree days | 3,044 Degree days | 10 |
| 1980s | 2,818 Degree days | 2,347 Degree days | 3,166 Degree days | 10 |
| 1990s | 2,667 Degree days | 2,333 Degree days | 3,262 Degree days | 10 |
| 2000s | 2,499 Degree days | 2,282 Degree days | 2,662 Degree days | 10 |
| 2010s | 2,467 Degree days | 2,106 Degree days | 3,100 Degree days | 10 |
| 2020s | 2,331 Degree days | 2,171 Degree days | 2,581 Degree days | 6 |
More reference data data for Göttingen
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Change in heating -119.05 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Change in cooling -12.92 Degree days (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs — Cooling degree 19.86 Degree days (2025)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs — Change in extreme precipitation 3.44 Days per year (2024)
- Precipitation - Cities and FUAs — Extreme precipitation days 5.5 Days per year (2024)
- Assumptions for probability of dying by age, sex, type of projection 0.0003 (2100)
- Cooling and heating degree days by NUTS 2 regions - annual data 2,976 (2025)
- Cooling and heating degree days by NUTS 2 regions - monthly data 453.59 (2025)
- Dependency ratio - Cities and FUAs 29.7 Percentage of population aged 15-64 years (2025)
- Wind threats - Cities and FUAs — Exposure to wind threats 0 Percentage of area (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Göttingen?
- Cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas in Göttingen was 2,545 Degree days in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas recorded in Göttingen?
- The highest recorded value was 3,289 Degree days in 1956.
- What is the lowest cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas recorded in Göttingen?
- The lowest recorded value was 2,106 Degree days in 2014.
- How does Göttingen rank for cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas?
- Göttingen ranks 161st out of 1323 regions with data for 2025.
- Is cooling and heating degree days - cities and fuas rising or falling in Göttingen?
- Over the last ten years it is up 9.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Göttingen data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
<p align="justify">This dataset provides indicators of Cooling and Heating Degree Days (CDDs and HDDs) for FUAs and cities. CDDs and HDDs are measurements used to estimate energy usage based on outdoor temperature. CDD measures the demand for cooling, while HDD measures the demand for heating, both calculated relative to a baseline temperature.</p> <h3>Data sources and methodology</h3> <p align="justify"> The indicators use 0.1-degree resolution grids from the <a href=https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/ECMWF_ERA5_LAND_DAILY_AGGR>ERA5-Land dataset</a>. ERA5-Land is used as it provides harmonised, globally consistent coverage at fine spatial resolution (0.1 degree), enabling the production of comparable subnational indicators also where national meteorological data are not available at the required scale. Annual CDDs are the sum over a year of the differences between the daily mean outdoor air temperature and the threshold temperature when the outdoor temperature is above the threshold temperature. HDDs are the sum over a year of the differences between the threshold temperature and the daily mean outdoor air temperature when the outdoor temperature is below the threshold temperature. Threshold temperatures are set to 22°C for CDDs and 15°C for HDDs.</p> <p align="justify"> These estimates may differ from official subnational climate statistics due to differences in methodological approaches, such as the use of reanalysis based top down modelling versus in situ observations, along with variations in input data sources, spatial resolution, and the models and algorithms used to generate temperature estimates. </p> <h3>Defining FUAs and cities</h3> <p align="justify">The OECD, in cooperation with the EU, has developed a harmonised <a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/oecd-definition-of-cities-and-functional-urban-areas.html">definition of functional urban areas</a> (FUAs) to capture the economic and functional reach of cities based on daily commuting patterns <a href=https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264174108-en>(OECD, 2012)</a>. FUAs consist of: <ol> <li><b>A city</b> – defined by urban centres in the degree of urbanisation, adapted to the closest local administrative units to define a city.</li> <li><b>A commuting zone</b> – including all local areas where at least 15% of employed residents work in the city.</li> </ol> The delineation process includes: <ul> <li>Assigning municipalities surrounded by a single FUA to that FUA.</li> <li>Excluding non-contiguous municipalities.</li> </ul> <p> The correspondence table between SAUs and FUAs/cities is available in <a href=https://webfs-cfe.oecd.org/files/.Stat/cities_local_areas/fua_cities_sau_mapping.parquet>parquet </a> and <a href=https://webfs-cfe.oecd.org/files/.Stat/cities_local_areas/fua_cities_sau_mapping.csv>csv</a> format. </p> The definition identifies 1 272 FUAs and 1 269 cities in all OECD member countries except Costa Rica and three accession countries.</p> <h3>Cite this dataset</h3> <p>OECD Regions, cities and local areas database (<a href="http://data-explorer.oecd.org/s/1dj">Cooling and heating degree days - Cities and FUAs</a>), <a href=http://oe.cd/geostats>http://oe.cd/geostats</a></p> <h3>Further information</h3> <ul> <li> <a href=https://localdataportal.oecd.org/>OECD Local Data Portal </a> </li> <li> <a href=https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-regions-and-cities-at-a-glance-2024_f42db3bf-en.html/>OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance </a> </li> </ul> <p align="justify">For questions and/or comments, please email <a href="mailto:CitiesStat@oecd.org">CitiesStat@oecd.org</a>